Today, Millennial Action Project (MAP) released a new report finding that there are 334 Millennial and Gen Z candidates running for Congress this election cycle.
Carney deserves to return to Hartford
What is a microgrid? Watch this video
Think Microgrid, the Civil Society Institute, RMI and Millennial Action Project have released Microgrids Now, a short video explaining microgrids and how they are a game changer for the US energy grid.
Young Candidates Running in the 2022 Midterms Could Reshape US Politics
There are roughly 270 young candidates — all under 45 — running for Congress in the 2022 midterms. They couldn’t come any sooner: A new analysis shows our Congress is one of the oldest on average in recent history.
At the Races: Closing time
Who’s going to Montpelier? Toof, Dees-Erickson campaign for Franklin-8 seat
I started the Vermont future caucus, for legislators 45 and under. The tri-partisan coalition of legislators will be working on issues that affect young Vermonters – health care, cost of living, child care – and we’re going to be a voice there and find issues we can all agree on in a nonpartisan way.
Election 2022: Meet 101st House District Rep. John-Michael Parker
Reed Howard of the Millennial Action Project: Being a True Conservative in the Age of Trump and How to Create Space for Cross-Partisan Conversations
New Ascend Fellows Announced at the Aspen Institute
For 10 years, Ascend at the Aspen Institute has worked with families and partners to generate educational success and economic mobility. “Breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty starts by changing the trajectory for our youngest children and families in early childhood,” says Anne Mosle, vice president of the Aspen Institute and founder and executive director of Ascend.
Resources for policymakers researching microgrids
Some of Congress' youngest members have famously flamed out. Can a candidate be too young to serve?
What to expect at the National Citizen Leadership Conference
"Freedom, unity, and civic courage." That’s the theme of American Promise’s National Citizen Leadership Conference coming up in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 28-29.
The Future Favors the Brave
Report: How many jobs will microgrids produce?
Investing in the renewable energy components of microgrids — especially energy storage and solar photovoltaics (PV) — generates jobs and yields economic benefits, along with resilience and environmental pluses. With additional regulation and incentives, those numbers could be even higher, according to the report.
MILLENNIAL POLITICIANS ON FINDING COMMON GROUND
AT A DIVISIVE TIME IN NATIONAL POLITICS, HOW CAN LOCAL POLITICIANS WORK FOR THE COMMON GOOD? HEAR FROM TWO YOUNG LEADERS.
In US politics, bipartisanship is now the exception, not the rule. But the Millennial Action Project is pushing back: it trains young leaders to bridge the partisan divide and work together to solve America’s problems.
In this episode, we meet two members of the Millennial Action Project from opposite sides of the aisle. They are state representatives from Connecticut, Republican Devin Carney, and Democrat Jillian Gilchrest. Gilchrest and Carney discuss the joys and challenges of being a local politician at a time when national politics is so divisive. ‘Get to know me’ is something they often find themselves saying to constituents who judge them solely on the ‘R’ or ‘D’ after their name.
The two representatives talk about listening and responding to their constituents, having their own prejudices upended, and how they find ways to agree for the good of their state. All on this episode of Let’s Find Common Ground.
Young people, patriotism and the Fourth of July
Transform our energy grid now with renewable microgrids
Energy costs are the single most important factor in rising inflation. If we can stabilize those costs, we can begin to rein in inflation.
